Assessing Nigerian Leaders of Pre-School for Improvement: A Focus on their Personnel Function
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2005-09-12
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Onyene, V. E.
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Faculty of Educational Studies, University of Winneba, Ghana
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This study is aimed at probing the extent to which head teachers: proprietor/ proprietress-owner-managers of preschools in Lagos state adopt and apply interpersonal skills as a leadership strategy in their personnel administration. Using an unstructured instrument titled; Interpersonal Leadership Skill Questionnaire, (ILSQ), 225 teachers were used to assess their school heads interactive skills in a perceived manner. Eleven interpersonal Skill variable; were studied but only four were discussed" detail as most crucial. Both the simple percentile ranking and the chi-test of significance were used in data analysis. The findings include among others; that preschool heads ability to transform behaviour of their workers was rated low expectation' at 31.6%; and 15.1% on 'high expectation'; the Chi-test result at df=2; significant level 0.05 = critical val.5.991 showed that these head teachers as significantly low in the prevalent patterns of interpersonal skill application.
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Onyene, V. E. (2005). Assessing Nigerian leaders of pre-schools for improvement: A focus on their personnel functions. Journal of Research and Development in Education (JORED), University of Education, Ghana, 5, 154–164.